Continuum: I want that guys' dev environment
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
Is that the series with X-Files's Cancer Man as the bad guy? Not a character spin-off...I mean the actor who portrayed him, William B. David. I remember watching the series only for the sake of seeing what he was up to. Was also curious to see him in another role. What a waste of time. I'm unfortunately just the right (wrong?) type of OCD so if I start watching a TV series, no matter how bad, I have to see it to the end. That one is firmly in that pile. [Edit] As for the 'missed humor' opportunity - I hear ya, it'd be fun to see even if just once. There's just so many ways they could do it. In a similar vein - I still remember watching Angel (the Buffy spin-off), where the good guy's running in a parking lot, jumps into his car (a convertible, so he literally jumped into the driver's seat), and after fumbling around with his key not fitting in the ignition...realizes he's in the wrong car, and his (practically identical) is sitting a few rows away. Made him waste many precious seconds going after the bad guy, but it's the sort of thing you're completely NOT expecting in a moment like this. OTOH, this is not atypical of Joss Whedon's type of humor.
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The stories are very poorly crafted.
Who cares? They're still fun.
Software Zen:
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
I need to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a retired psychologist, early 70's, and spends 4-6 hours on the trainer 3-4 times a week. On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit.
Software Zen:
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I need to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a retired psychologist, early 70's, and spends 4-6 hours on the trainer 3-4 times a week. On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit.
Software Zen:
delete this;That is **awesome**. That's where I want to be when I'm that old. What a legend.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit
So he went for the budget model!
cheers Chris Maunder
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Is that the series with X-Files's Cancer Man as the bad guy? Not a character spin-off...I mean the actor who portrayed him, William B. David. I remember watching the series only for the sake of seeing what he was up to. Was also curious to see him in another role. What a waste of time. I'm unfortunately just the right (wrong?) type of OCD so if I start watching a TV series, no matter how bad, I have to see it to the end. That one is firmly in that pile. [Edit] As for the 'missed humor' opportunity - I hear ya, it'd be fun to see even if just once. There's just so many ways they could do it. In a similar vein - I still remember watching Angel (the Buffy spin-off), where the good guy's running in a parking lot, jumps into his car (a convertible, so he literally jumped into the driver's seat), and after fumbling around with his key not fitting in the ignition...realizes he's in the wrong car, and his (practically identical) is sitting a few rows away. Made him waste many precious seconds going after the bad guy, but it's the sort of thing you're completely NOT expecting in a moment like this. OTOH, this is not atypical of Joss Whedon's type of humor.
Yeah. Cancer man was such a great character.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
Full security access is the easiest part of the plot. The password is the name of evil mastermind's cat, all in uppercase.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth. To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
I'm happy to play along with this story illusion. If you running a high end cutting edge operation. You don't hire the best. You don't hire a top 10% lock picker to pick a safe, no, you get top 0.1%. the kinda that makes no mistake. The kind that built their own IDE that has 0% chance of crashing. The ones that duplicate windows to remove all the bugs, but makes it look like windows still so any passer by wouldnt catch on that the OS is maxed out with all the best hacking software.
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That is **awesome**. That's where I want to be when I'm that old. What a legend.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit
So he went for the budget model!
cheers Chris Maunder
We're in Ohio. He uses the trainer from November through February usually, or if we still have snow or ice. Whenever he gripes about the weather outside, I tell him "Physician, heal thyself." :laugh:
Software Zen:
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Full security access is the easiest part of the plot. The password is the name of evil mastermind's cat, all in uppercase.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth. To err is human, to arr is pirate.
Did you ever saw someone entering a good password in a movie :) I remember a space movie someone asking the password to engage the attack, the password was 1 2 3 4 5.
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
(SPOILER ALERT - Stranger Things Season 2) How about on Stranger Things (second season), Bob had to use BASIC to bring the power back online for the facility. Every key that he pressed produced a full line of code! Actually, that would have been my dream back in the mid-80s, too. Know BASIC - save the world! And, my name is Bob, too! :D
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Did you ever saw someone entering a good password in a movie :) I remember a space movie someone asking the password to engage the attack, the password was 1 2 3 4 5.
Spaceballs. I have the same combination on my luggage btw :) :)
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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We're in Ohio. He uses the trainer from November through February usually, or if we still have snow or ice. Whenever he gripes about the weather outside, I tell him "Physician, heal thyself." :laugh:
Software Zen:
delete this;lol. In Toronto we're still on trainers. In April. :sigh:
cheers Chris Maunder
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(SPOILER ALERT - Stranger Things Season 2) How about on Stranger Things (second season), Bob had to use BASIC to bring the power back online for the facility. Every key that he pressed produced a full line of code! Actually, that would have been my dream back in the mid-80s, too. Know BASIC - save the world! And, my name is Bob, too! :D
I know. BASIC. Surely it would have been FORTRAN! ;)
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
Loved the first season but the second one seemed to go off script and by the third it was a mess. Victor Webster and Rachel Adams do a great job nonetheless...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
All I can say is, at least Continuum was better (subjectively, and by a very small margin) than Street Hawk or Mantis were. Those were real "lets see how badly we can use tech at the core of a TV series" bombs. ---------- Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Spaceballs. I have the same combination on my luggage btw :) :)
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
Once one a Micrsoft seminar 'security' the first question to the audience was "who of you is using his birthday as unlock code on his mobile phone". 25% of the audience raised there hand. The speaker replied: we have a lot of work to do, as it is already unsafe to use your birthday as unlock code, but telling in public your are using it.....